Getting back to my own coaching world, here at TSC my group known as Gold 2/3 has navigated the waters of short course season and the metrics show that the group is improving and healthier then at any point in the group's history.
This short course season we participated in 13 racing opportunities between meets and official TSC time trials and here is a look at the numbers...
1344 total swims
556 new best times
41% success ratio
It's well documented within my group that the primary metric for success are best times. Every best time is treated equally to others, whether it be from one of my Easterns qualifiers or all the way down to one of my swimmers fighting to try and make the Central Region Championships. Best times are best times and a ratio of 41% I consider to be above the 40% threshold.
Here's the breakdown of the swims...
Meet - # of best times (# of total swims) = %
Downtown Sprint - 24 (66) = 36%
Walker Invitational - 78 (184) = 42%
Harvest & Autumn - 102 (179) = 56%
Brantford Swim International - 17 (67) = 25%
Youth Cup & Mega City - 85 (136) = 62%
CAMO Invitational - 48 (104) = 46%
TSC TT #1 - 23 (58) = 39%
TSC TT #2 - 12 (16) = 75%
Cindy Nicholas - 44 (156) = 28%
Central Region Championships - 82 (148) = 55%
TSC TT #3 - 3 (6) = 50%
Speedo Easterns - 2 (3) = 66%
Junior Provincials - 10 (28) = 35%
Newmarket Invitational - 26 (193) = 13%
TOTAL - 556 (1344) = 41%
In addition to acceptable best time success, another metric that shows the group is moving forward are the qualifiers from the group.
Easterns qualifiers = 2 (last season = 0)
Provincial qualifiers = 5 (last season = 0)
Although I teach my group that success should not be gleaned from arbitrary time standards (which is what I find these standards to be), it is nice thing to have swimmers breaking through to these meets.
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Beyond the metrics I'm beginning a process of group evaluation, looking at areas for improvement from both the swimmers and this coach. I'll have some thoughts on those evaluations in a future blog!
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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